The folks at Four Color Comics point out a contest for photoshopping superheroes into fine art. Cute idea, right? I was entertained, to the point where I let my poor old dial-up connection chug away until the whole thing loaded.
First thing I noticed was damn! but this makes it obvious how disproportionately comic-book people (particularly women) are drawn. (Not that that's anything new.) Three of the entries feature adaptations of Bougeaureau's Birth of Venus (but no Botticelli, somehow)--Dark Phoenix, Supergirl,and Wonder Woman. Granted that Bougeaureau's Venus isn't the most svelte of canvas beauties, but she wasn't posing for Rubens either. In other words, a perfectly nice, attractive female body.
However, slap a costume on her and suddenly she's dumpy. With the costume, you expect the comic-book proportions, and without them the figure appears thick-waisted, short-legged, heavy-thighed; the creator of the Supergirl pic added some extra in the breast area to compensate for the small-chestedness of Bougeaurou's model, although the smaller-breasted Wonder Woman looks just fine--surprisingly it's not the lack of top-heaviness that you notice, it's the general imbalance.
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